Clekshun Fred - Now Peugeot 205 Sportomatic Project Fred

[MrSchwifty]

Right, my first collection - I may get the must haves wrong. But I'm sure you'll forgive me. 

Prior to departure:

Coffee at work, followed by use of work printer to print temp insurance. 

 

Vehicle is for Mrs Schwifty - who has already named it (god help me). 

[MrSchwifty]

Phase 1 begins.....

[MrSchwifty]

Phase 1 complete, made it home. Now to the next mobile for a lift to new vehicle....

[MrSchwifty]

Boring......

 

[MrSchwifty]

Sustenance acquired from local ethnic shop, not Halal... 

 

[MrSchwifty]

It's not one of these, wrong brand and wrong number:

 

[MrSchwifty]

Henley.....twee hell hole with a Farrow & Ball - for the wanker that spends £75 on 5ltrs of Magnolia.

 

 

 

[MrSchwifty]

Aaaànd here it is..... In all its automatic glory!

 

[skattrd]

Looks good, I think you outbid Panda* on this one, don't let him see that you got it

[hairnet]

why couldnt doctors collection be that simple

moar on the 505 pls

[MrSchwifty]

3 minutes ago, hairnet said:

why couldnt doctors collection be that simple

moar on the 505 pls

Yes it's about time I updated the 505 thread, things stalled somewhat on it due to house rebuild work over the winter. Progress update soon! 

[MrSchwifty]

Well it's back home and tucked away for the time being until other stuff has been moved on. 

First impressions are - it's pretty damn mint. Very few issues from what I can tell so far, even the interior is intact! There is a rather annoying hot starting issue, looks like a problem with the automatic choke. But once up and running it drives beautifully, I'm impressed with the auto box so far - not slushy at all and the shift points are nicely timed.  

Anyway, this will become the project thread soon enough but for now here are some more pictures! 

 

[skattrd]

This might be a red herring, but the last motor I had that had a hot starting issue, the issue ended up being a faulty temp sender … The car thought it was still cold, so basically tried to start with full choke, when it wasn't needed.

I have no idea what setup is on these, so this might be miles off … then again, it might be something worth checking.

[Dan302]

Peugeot used to make such handsome cars

[MrSchwifty]

 

1 hour ago, skattrd said:

This might be a red herring, but the last motor I had that had a hot starting issue, the issue ended up being a faulty temp sender … The car thought it was still cold, so basically tried to start with full choke, when it wasn't needed.

I have no idea what setup is on these, so this might be miles off … then again, it might be something worth checking.

 

Have yet to delve into this, that's a damn good shout though! I'm not familiar with the Weber auto-choke system but no doubt it's some wax stat/bi metal coolant warmed linkage abortion that goes out of adjustment if you fart near it. 

[Amishtat]

Well bought! I recently had custody of Amish Snr's 205 auto while he was on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. His is called Stan, what's yours been christened?